Also speaking to reporters at the Republican National Convention, Special Report anchor Bret Baier said “it feels bad” to see Ailes go. He admitted he has a “key-man” clause in his contract allowing him to depart the network with the Fox mastermind.

Ailes’ downfall as the emperor of the Fox News empire came little more than two weeks after Carlson filed a lawsuit alleging he demeaned her with “severe and pervasive” sexual harassment, often making sexist comments during everyday conversation and eventually firing her because she rebuffed his alleged sexual advances. Ailes vehemently denied the charges.

Despite the seriousness of the allegations against Ailes, cable-news stalwart Geraldo Rivera took a much more indignant tone about the exit, tweeting: “Oh the grotesque unfairness of life.”

Rivera has doggedly denied the possibility that the sexual-harassment claims against Ailes could be true. “I’ve known him 40 years. He's about as flirty as the grizzly in #TheRevenant. I stand with Roger Ailes,” he tweeted several days after the allegations emerged.

"I'm absolutely heartbroken that all this happened,” long-time Fox commentator Brit Hume told reporters. He took to Twitter to defend Ailes’ legacy as a media genius: “The fact that Rupert Murdoch himself has taken charge at Fox News is a sign of how much the company values what Roger Ailes built.”

Former weekend host Mike Huckabee, too, professed his unending adoration for Ailes. "I love the guy, and he's been really, really good to me," he reportedly said.

None of the men said anything of the alleged workplace malfeasance that took their fearless leader down.